NOTE: this manuscript has since been updated substantially and
incorporated into the forthcoming Lost Races of the Ancient World book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER 1
:THE MODERN IDENTITIES OF THE
DESCENDANTS

OF
ELAM AND LUD

Ancient Elam

The Sarmatians

Who are the Poles?

The Serbians and Croatians

The Wends

The Modern Descendants of Lud

Albania

The Future of East Europe !

CHAPTER 2 :THE
ORIGINS OF THE WHITE RUSSIANS

AND BALTS

The Mitanni

The land of Rashu

Rosh-The Original Russians

The Varangian Rus

Medan

The Brahmins

Where are the Medes and Persians today ?

Origins of the Rumanians

Who are the Letts ?

From northwest India to the Baltic

Physical Anthropology of the Balts

The Hungarians

CHAPTER 3 :MADAI, TUBAL AND MESCHECH

Isaiah's Warning

The modern descendants of Madai

Where is Tubal ?

Meschech

Russian claims of Ethnic Origins

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHART 1: Noah's Descendants

Gomer

Magog

Madai

JAPHETH

Javan

Tubal

Meshech

Tiras

Cush

NOAH

HAM

Mizraim

Phut

Canaan

Elam

SHEM

Asshur

Arpachshad

Lud

FOREWORD

Today we hear much about East Europe in
the news. Almost every day events in that part of the world excites the
imagination of politicians and grips the attention of viewers, listeners and
readers around the globe.

Just what is the meaning of events in Central and Eastern
Europe? And, most importantly, how might we interpret these astounding events
in the light of the Bible.

In
the closing years of the seventies and early eighties, I researched the
perplexing question as to the origins of these fascinating peoples. It is
evident that the average Anglo-Saxon-Kelt has no idea as to the deep rooted
superstitions, ancient suspicions, national ferver and historical backgrounds
of these nations. Their culture is brilliant, yet their national personalities
differ markedly from that of the north-west Europeans. Why is this so? This
booklet attempts to demonstrate the origins of these peoples and answers many
of our questions about them. This research will also afford us valuable
insights into their future.

The
author would be pleased to hear from anyone who would like to write to him. He
would be more than grateful to receive any ideas to improve this booklet,
further evidence to substantiate the matters contained herein or corrections.
His address may be found on the inside front page.

It is not the aim of this booklet to
present an outline of the history or a detailed analysis of these peoples. I
do, however, recommend The Guide to the Peoples of Europe edited by
Felipe Fernandez-Armeste; The Races of Europe by William Z Ripley (pp
335-435) and The Races of Europe by Carleton S Coon (pp 559-617).

"I CANNOT FORECAST TO YOU THE ACTION OF RUSSIA.
IT IS A RIDDLE, WRAPPED IN A MYSTERY, INSIDE AN ENIGMA" (SIR WINSTON
CHURCHILL)

THE
DESCENDANTS OF ELAM AND LUD

Where are the
Elamites and the peoples of Lud today? Can we trace their movements from the
Middle East? Or did they become "lost" from view, unable to be
traced? Only an analysis of the physical type of both Lud and the Elamites and
their tribal names can give us a clue as to their modern identities. Hold on to
your hat as we go on a whirlwind tour of the exciting historical and
anthropological data from which we may form an educated opinion.

ANCIENT ELAM

The
Elamites dwelt in south-west Persia;[1], Khuzistan to be precise[2]. This is also south-east of Babylonia.
What were they like racially? Anthropologists describe them as being neither
Nordic; nor Semetic; (Arabs)[3]. Hinz, author of The Lost World Of
Elam, writes

"Any attempt to
trace the Elamites ethnologically is beset with difficulties. The more you
investigate available sources, the more you get the impression that the
Elamites were...a race of immutable independence. No relationship with other
peoples has yet emerged."[4]

He adds that the glazed brick reliefs
depict three different races existing in Elam : white, brown and another so
dark that it is almost black[5].
The white ethnic group in Elam were the original literal descendants of Elam
and may be classified as Alpine;
racially according to an expert in the field, Taylor[6].

Dr
Gayre has this to say :

"Donald A.
Mackenzie, citing C.H.W.Johns, asks: 'were the pre-Semitic Elamites originally
speakers of an agglutinative language, like the Sumerians and the present-day
Basques, who were conquered in pre-historic times by a people ofAryan; speech?"[7]

Historian,
Los, concurs, maintaining that the Elamites we find depicted on the monuments
are round-headed (brachycephalic;)
and have a receding forehead like the Sumerians[8] and all experts are aware of the fact
that they were white and definitely not brown Arabic Semites.[9]

The
Elamites came into unfortunate conflict with Assyria;. The powerful Assyrians; mercilessly invaded Elam, sacked Susa; their capital, and slaughtered many
of them. Thus they became eternal enemies. Later, Elam was destroyed by Media; (c 640 BC) together with their
capital, Susa;. This ended the
Elamite power, even though Cyrus, King of Persia, made Susa one of his capitals
a century later. Those that escaped migrated to find a new homeland. Where did
the Elamites eventually settle down? Who might be the modern descendants of
Elam today?

The
tribes of Elam were the Anzan;,
Uxii; or Uxians, Armardians;, Mardians, Khapirt, Aipir,
Messadatae;, Cissi, Cossaei; or Cossi[10]. In addition Elam contained the Khuzi or
Huzha tribe[11]. The Kassi ;or Cassite tribes were also known as the Kossai or
Kashshu[12] and thus were probably Kassite robber
tribes dwelling in north-west Elam[13]. The name may also be spelt Kissean,
Kossean or Kossaioi. The Assyrians called these Kassi hill-tribes of west Elam
the Kusu[14].

THESARMATIANS

Whatbecame of the Elamites and the non-Elamite
Kushu and the Massadetae who migrated with them? They migrated into southern
Russian and settled along the
Don with Madai, being known as the Sauromatae by Diodorus and other
Greek historians. Perhaps the name derives from, or partly derives from, the
name of the Armardian or Armatian Elamite tribe. The word Sarmatian may also be
spelt Samartian. However, some writers dispute whether they are an identical
people to the Sauromatae. It may be that the Sauromatae are the descendants of
Madai and the Sarmatians descend from Elam and that the two became confused by
observers and ancient historians due to their close proximity and similarity.
Vernadsky notes the following

"It is doubtful
that the name 'Sarmatae' has any inner connexion with 'Sauromatae'; the
similarity must be accidental...the Greeks and the Romans called the
'Sarmatian' tribes 'Sarmatae'..."[15]

In
any event, Pliny mentions that they were part of the Scythian hordes[16]. Amongst their tribes were the Alani,
Iazyges, Roxolani, Siraces, Aorsi and Antae[17]; not all of these were Elamites or even
descendants of Madai. The Iazyges were also known as the Iaxamatae or
Ixibatai[18] and the Chinese called the Aorsi the
Yentsai of Antsai (Antae)[19] which was perhaps descended from the
Elamite Anzan tribe.

In
terms of their physical biology and anthropology, Professor Coon informs us
that the Samartians were White and in no way may be considered as Mongoloid[20]. They conquered western Scythia in Roman
times and reached the Carpathian mountains, naming them the Sarmatian mountains
and is so called throughout the ancient Book of Vles. We know that the
Sarmatians were an Iranian-speaking people[21] and that their weapons, implements and
artistic objects were comparable to those of Elam and Mesopotamia[22]. In addition, Elamite art 'influenced'
the Sarmatians and both Persian and Elamite axes have been found among them[23]. Of course - for they werethe Elamites!

It
is also of interest that "Sar" in Sarmatian originally meant
"Prince" or "tribal chief", according to Vernadsky[24]. In the ancient Middle East "Sar"
meant "king" in Assyrian[25] and I'm sure we have all heard of the
famous Persian Shahs. We also find in Strong's Exhaustive Concordance that
"Sar" in Hebrew means a "headperson ... captain ... chief ...
general ... governor ... prince ruler"[26]. Thus the origin of the word is clearly
the Middle East.

Eventually,
the proto-Slavs (who shall be discussed in the following chapter), came under
the dominion of the Sarmatians[27]and their culture was greatly influenced
by the latter[28]. But after the power of the Alans (and
in particular their leading tribe, the Spali or Speri)was broken by the Goths, the leading role
was taken over by the Antior Antes Sarmatian
tribe. In historical perspective the proto-Slavic and Armatian peoples were
united politically to such an extent that Jordanes, a famous Gothic historian
of the sixth century AD wrote thatthere were three groups of Slavs : the Venedi, Sclavoni and the Antes[29].

Where
are the Sarmatian Venedi, Sclavoni and Antes today? For we find that once the
Sarmatians were conquered, "they completely disappeared fromhistory"[30]. But whole races do not just simply
disappear! So where are they ? Antes is an Iranian name[31] and are regarded by historians as the
direct ancestors of many of the Slavs today[32] . Could they be descendants of the Anzi
or Anzan tribe which were , as we have previously seen, an Elamite people?Historians note that there are clear traces
of the Sarmatians - especially the Antae (or Aorsi) having settled in, and
populated Poland[33]. Sulimirski remarks:

"AncientSarmatian traditions survived in Poland for
a long time. A belief in the Sarmatian origin of Poland was widespread among
the Polish Nobility"[34].

Much
evidence may also be found in ancient Polish coins and heraldry[35]. Certain authors of the early twentieth
century agree that the western Slavsdescend from the Sarmatians[36]. It should be noted by the reader that
as physical anthropologists identify the white Elamites as Alpine, so they
classify the non-Russian Slavs of Eastern Europe as eastern Alpines. All
historians agree that the Alpine peoples once dweltin Central Asia where the Scytho-Sarmatians arose[37]. It is of particular significance that
author Sulimirski comments that:

"The Sarmatians
were closely akin to the ancient Medes, Parthians and Persians"[38]

Prepare
yourself for a pleasant surprise. Where might the Parthians, who once inhabited
a part of ancient Persia, be today? Lempriere's Classical Dictionary explains: "Parthini, a people of
Illyricum"[39]--Illyricum is south-east Europe.
Hereis a further clue to identifying
the very descendants of Elam himself.Dvornik also makes mention of how the peoples of Iran (Medes, Persians
and Elamites) did not follow the other Indo-Europeans in using the symbolic
name of Dieus ("worshipped sky") for their god. Instead, they
substituted "cloud" for "sky" and used the cognate Deiwas
(changed to "Daeva") to refer, not togod, but a demon, hostile to him. The Slavs, maintains Dvornik,
followed the Iranians in all of these respects[40]; and why should they not? For they were
the literal Elamites who had previously dwelt in ancient Iran. But that is by
no means all of the proof: the Slavs, he further states, "followed"
the Iranians in also the types of gods they had, used the same names of the
gods, and in various practices such as burial, theyemulated the Iranians. Further, they also had many Iranian words
in their own vocabulary[41].

Many
of the Slavs settled in Czecho-slovakia, which means "the land of the
Czechs and Slovaks". When the western Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth
century AD, the Germans (then occupying Czechoslovakia), were led to release
their 'pent-up energies' in out-migration, thus emptying the land permitting
the Czechs (also known as Bohemians), Slovaks and the Hannacks(known as the Moravians or Moavians) to
settle the area[42]. It is very likely that the Slovaks
descend from the Sarmatian Sclavones tribe and the Hannacks from the Hanshan or
Anzan tribe of Elam[43].

WHO ARE THE POLES?

The
Poles or Polaks (a word which has come to mean 'men of the plains') are a
fascinating people but are somewhat more difficult to identify specifically. We
know that the Polani tribe united six tribes (not all Slavs) in the tenth
century AD, forming the first Polish state[44]. To my knowledge, these six tribes were
the Polanians (also known as Lechs), Vistulians, East Pomeranians, Mazovians,
Silesians and the Kashu. Because of the German and other neo-Nordic tribes in
Poland today, the Poles comprise the fairest of all the Central European Slavs.
A tribe known as the Pul once inhabited Asia Minor[45], but whether they had anything to do
with the Elamites and the modern Poles, one cannot say dogmatically at this
time. This may be the origin of the name of the Polani tribe.

Perhaps
they came from the Pillatu district of Elam[46]. Historians know that

"western
Russia, before it came to be called 'white', was thus referred to as Polotian
Russia, from Polock, its strongest and most advanced principality"[47].

Amongst
the original Slavs in western Russia, were the Polyanians and Polotians[48]. One tribe known as the Polabians
settled along the bank of the Elbe, south of Hamburg - they were definitely a
Slavic Tribe[49]. But the Poljane proper were the
ancestors of the Poles[50] who settled in the district which came
to be known as Great Poland[51]. Are the Poles descended from Elam ? It
is probable that many are. But it is just as likely that many descend from
Peleg. In terms of physical anthropology, the Poles are not your typical Slav,
although they are regarded as Alpine or semi - Alpine. Professor Coon believed
that Poland is too blond a nation to be regarded as completely Alpine. In
addition, their skin pigmentation is Nordic[52].

The
word Pol or Pul may be found all over eastern Europe:

·Polabi region of Czechoslovakia
(known also as Lake Plain)

·A town and bay in Yugoslavia are known as
Pula or Pola

·Polesyer Marshland of USSR (
Pripet Marshes)

·The city of Polevskoy(USSR)

·South-west Ukraine was know as Polovtsian

·A city of Belorussia was known as Polotsk

·Polgar in Hungary

Many
other names of places bear the prefix Pol in the Soviet Union. Another Polish
tribe, the Pomeranians dwell along the northern sea-board of Poland. They are a
neo-Nordic people[53]. Occupying the sea-board with them are
the Kashubs[54]. Geipel spells their name as Kaszuby or
Cassubian[55]. Surely we have here the Kashu tribe
(descendants of the Kassites) who dwelt in Elam, referred to earlier in the
chapter ?! The Kashu are a blonde people. No wonder the district near which
they occupied in Elam was known as Rashi[56], meaning blonde.

THESERBIANSANDCROATIANS

Further
south from Poland lies Yugoslavia (sometimes spelt Jugoslavia), which means
"southern Slavs". They recall their first independent state under one
Stephen Nemanja (c1168-96) which was known as the Grand Zupan(chieftan) of
Ruscia or Rask; that was the Medieval name of Serbia. They reached their zenith
during the reign of Stephen Dusan (1331-55). But the southern slavs were a
divided lot. Their lack of solidarity was due, in part, to their tribal system
and divisions along clannish lines with each clan having its own chieftan or
Zupan. As a result they could not resist the Ottoman conquest when the Turks
became masters of the Balkans with their victory over the Serbs at Kosovo in
1389. To this day, divided by natural geographic boundaries, they perpetuate a
variety of social and cultural differences. In fact, they are racially the same
people but they did not become one state until this century. Also, the Catholic
nations of Croatia and Slovenia regard themselves as more Central European
culturally and ethnically, a view which was intensified under the Hapsburg
dynasty. In contrast, the Eastern Orthodox Serbians have a closer affinity with
the Russians.

The
Serbs ancient enemy is the Islamic Turks, that old oppressor. Yet they and the
Croats seems unable to combine against Islam and find themselves in blind
raging hatred of each other. The Serbs have felt rejected by Europe since the
Turkish conquest of 1389 and to this day still felt let down by the Christian
nations of Central and Western Europe. To them isolation is nothing new. But
their relationship with Croatia is a bitter hatred between two siblings, one
who feels betrayed and rejected by the other. It is indeed a very deep
conscious and subconscious national feeling. To make matters worse, their racial
brothers, the Ustasha Croats, collaborated with the Nazis and Catholics in
World War Two, resulting in massive massacres. Memories and bitterness will not
simply go away in this region.

Several
tribes dwell there, including the Herzegovinians who are taller than their
fellow tribes. Note also the Slovenians in the north who "in stature, head
form, and pigmentation they cannot be distinguished from the Austrians upon
whose territory they touch"[57].(They number about 1.9 million persons).

The
reader should note that the Elamites (also called Halam) were also known as
Elymais or Elymaeans[58]. The Greeks maintained in their records
that the Elimaei dwelt northwest of them in Yugoslavia. The same word was used
by the ancient Greeks to refer to the Elamites![59]Lempriere wrote: "Elimea, or Elimiotis, a district of Macedonia, or
of Illyricum according to others."[60]

There
we have it; a part of Elam dwell today in Yugoslavia! One wonders whether the
name of Serbia derives from the Seropi or Surappi River in Elam
and that the capital of Croatia, Zagreb, derives from the Zagreb mountain range
in ancient Elam. Interestingly, the mountain range Dinara in Dalmatia and the
Dinar currency may be connected to Mount Dinar of ancient Elam! It may be no
coincidence that the fifth king of Elam was Tata and the word Tata means
"Dad" in Serbian. Could all this be mere 'coincidence'? Further,
Strabo[61] also has the Elimeia as dwelling in Macedonia.

The
two largest tribes or nations comprising a major part of Yugoslavia are the
Croats and the Serbs, who, according to Slavic history expert, Dvornik, descend
from the Sarmatians, and may be traced back to southern Russia[62]. Dvornikadds the following in a footnote :

"P.S.Sakac thinks
that he discovered the name 'Croats' in Darius' inscriptions from the sixth
century B.C. There an old Persian province and people are mentioned, called
Harahvaitai, Harahvatis, Horohoati..."[63]

Need
more proof?

Centuries
ago Ammanius Marcellinus mentioned that a city arose anciently in Persia called
Habroatis and a city known as Chroates[64]. Is this where the Croats originated?
According to Sakac the Harahvatis were driven out of southern Persia and
migrated over the Caucasus[65]. Dvornik goes on to mention that
Byzantine Emperor, Constantine Porphyarogennetus, in his Book Of Ceremonies,[66] calls the Croats and Serbs
"Krevatas and Sarban", who were located between Alania and Tsanaria.
Sulimirski, author of The Sarmatians also makes mention of the referral
of the Emperor's to the Belochrobati or White Croats who "exhibited
certain Sarmatian characteristics ... [ they were ] of Iranian origin" he
states.[67]

Pliny
in his Natural History refers to the Chroasi dwelling with the
Massagetae in southern Russia[68] while Strabo mentions the Chorasmii as
also dwelling in southern Russia[69]. It should be noted that an area of
south-west Poland was once known as Chrobatia, which the Croatians prpbably
occupied centuries before trekking southwards[70]. Pliny also makes reference to the
region of Serbi between the Azov and the Caucasus[71]. In the following century, Ptolemy, in
his Geography, locates the Serboi between the lower Volga and the
Caucasus[72]. Yet another ancient writer, a Latin
geographer by the name of Vibius Sequestrus found the Serbs on the eastern
shores of the Azov as did Pliny and describes their westward movement into
Europe with some settling in Germany for a time. In the fifth century the Serbs
disputed where they should settle and the tribe split up with some migrating
into Germany but the majority settling in present-day Yugoslavia. They number
9.9 millions (including 2 million Albanians in Kosovo and 2 million Vojvodians
in the north), the Croats 5 millions, Montenegrians 632,000, Macedonians 1.9
million and 4.4 million Bosnians, Croats and Serbs occupy Bosnia-Hercegovinia.

The
few in eastern Germany are still there to this day and are known as Sorbs or
Sorabians! They are also known as Wends by some. But due to their Catholic
religion, they havae employed an alphabet of Latin origin. An even though they
are completely surrounded by Germanic peoples, they have maintained to a large
extent their own customs, identity, language and literature. Their numbers are
concentrated in the Spree Forest are of Lusatia between Cottbus and Lubben.

THE WENDS

It
is interesting to observe that the Elamites called the most famous mountain in
their region Elwend[73]. History records that at one time the
Elamites overran Babylonia and extended their rule into Palestine[74] where they named a river the Elwend,
which the Greeks called Orontes[75].

One
of the tribes from the Baltic region was called the Venedi, Veneti or Eneti in
Latin or Wends in German. More than one tribe of people was known as Wends[76] just as more than one tribe was known as
Suevi. Some think that a part of the Sarmatian Serboi which settled along the
Polish border became known as the Wends. Today they are known as the Serbs with
a branch settling in Yugoslavia[77]. Whether they were the original Wends it
is not possible to ascertain today. In any event, historians trace the Serbs
(or Sorabs as they were sometimes known) and Croats (Chrobates) from East
Germany to Yugoslavia[78].

It
is, however, sometimes difficult to distinguish in history between the north
German Wends and the Slavic Wends. Historically, the Venedi had joined with the
Sarmatian tribes called the Iazyges. Butinger's Tabula is one of the
oldest sets of maps available concerning Europe (third century AD) which names
the region occupied by the Sarmatians and Slavs as "Venedi Sarmatae",
indicating that they had become united. This no doubt led to some confusion
concerning the Wends and Veneti. Perhaps the Veneti derive from the Lake Van
area or that certain Elamites passed through that region.

We
do know that Strabo wrote that the Eneti had originated in Asia Minor and
migrated to the Adriatic[79]:

“the ... Eneti ... were
the most notable tribe of the Paphlagonians ... the Eneti disappeared and are
not to be seen in Paphlagonia[80]...
the Eneti first set forth fromthe
country of the White Syrians”[81].

Lempriere's
Classical Dictionary concurs showing us an alternative spelling as
Heneti[82], Perhaps they gave their name to the
Heniochi Mountains in which the river Kur had its source according to Pliny[83]. The Heniochi were "a people of
Asiatic Sarmatia"[84]. Historian, Hertz comments that

“The Eneti occur in Asia
Minor, but as Veneti they crop up also in Italy and in the Alps. The Lake of
Constance was called Lacus Venetus. Mons Venetus lies in the Pyranees”[85].

In
summary, we can see that it is quite clear that the tribes of Elam settled
parts of East Europe, especially southern Poland and Yugoslavia as well as
other regions of East Europe.

THE MODERN DESCENDANTS OF LUD

Josephus
informs us that Lud gave rise to the Lydians[86]while the account of Herodotus shows us that they were white[87]. They lived in Asia Minor[88] with their land bounded by Phrygia,
Mysia and Caria[89]. They have nothing to do, however, with
the dark Ludim who descend from Mizraim who cannot be connected with the white
Lydians[90]. The Lydians were known as the Luddu in
Accadian[91] and as a result, writes historian Simon,
"hardly anyone else but the Asiatic Lydians can be meant by 'Lud'..."[92]. While the Egyptian monuments label them
as the Luden, the Assyrians called them Ludbu [93]and an ancient town in the area was known
as Ludbi[94]. They joined with the Etruscans who were
a certain priestly class from Chaldea with their subjects. Scholars still argue
as to whether the Etruscans originated in Asia Minor or south-east Europe, the
former theory having gained the predominance. What happened was that the
Etruscans, fleeing Chaldea after its fall, migrated to Lydia, where we find the
Ludbu. Referring to the Luden, Baker's Bible Atlasnotes that they migrated to Asia Minor after being displaced
by the Assyrians[95]. Together with the Etruscans they
migrated into southern Europe.

Tuscany
in Italy is named after the Etruscans or Etrurians as the name is sometimes
spelt. One area occupied by them in Italy was known as Alba. The Etruscans
identified with the Tyrsenians or Tyrrenians of history[96]. Hertz writes that the Etruscans were
known as Tusci, Tyrrheni and Tursha to the Egyptians[97] and that "in all probability there
existed two distinct racial types within the Etruscans"[98]. Dr von Fange agrees with this
assessment stating that one group was mongoloid or Finnic by race[99]. They may have been conquered subjects
of the Etruscans. By way of an aside, it is interesting to note that Professor
Sadovsky of California State University-Fullerton, has written of the many
interesting similarities between the Finnic peoples and American Indians[100]. In or near Etruscan lands anciently, a
city known as Atia[101] was once extant. We also find that a
nation called the Rhaeti once lived in Etruria[102]. It may be no coincidence the Maoris
claim to come from an island in the Pacific with the exact same name!

The
Etruscans split up with the Ludbu migrating to south-east Europe, giving their
name to the River Ludias. They settled in what we call Albania today, which was
named after the land of Alba in Italy where they had originally settled.
Langer's famous Encyclopedia of World History maintains that the
Etruscans came from Lydia and that the Lydians contributed a marked amount to
ancient Italian civilization[103]. Professor Coon in his Living Races
of Man mentions that the Etruscan language of ancient northern Italy was
from the Indo-Hittite Illyrian tongue which is today represented by the
Albanian language. He feels that perhaps they came into Italy via Albania. In
any event, he feels certain that they originated in Asia Minor[104].

ALBANIA

We
know that the Albanian language, a modern close relative of the Etruscan, is a
branch of the great Indo-European family of languages[105]. Also, in terms of physical
anthropology, the Albanians descend from the Illyrian peoples of the Dinaric
branch.

They
are noted for their large round head, flattened at the back[106]. Historians note that the Albanians
descend from the Albanoi tribe of the Illyrians[107]. Today they are divided between the
Ghegs in the north and Tosks in the south, separated roughly by the Shkumbian
River. These two Albanian tribes comprise 95% of the population, but the remainder
are Greeks, Romanians and Bulgarians "and, as customary in Socialist
countries, are allowed to keep their language and national customs"[108].

The
Ghegs and Tosks have certain differences which are apparent: they do not only
differ in dress, musical and other cultural customs, but also in human biology.
The Tosks have a less Dinaric head form and are generally shorter[109]. In addition, the Tosks also have the
same cephalic index as their Epirotes tribe in Greece, just across the border[110]. The tribes of the Tosks are the Myzeqe,
Camevia and Laberia. Laberiamay
be a derivation of Lub or Lud. Dr Pilkey suggests that the Ghegs descend from
the Canaanite Girgashites[111]. The tribes of the Ghegs are the
Dukagjin and Maleia[112]The Tosks look down upon the Ghegs as uncivilized; conversely, the Ghegs
regard the Tosks as effeminate and mercenary[113].

Another
branch of Lud may be in the Caucasus region, and known today as the Georgians.
They are also an Alpine/Dinaric people and have the greatest degree of blondism
for peoples of that region, other than the Ossetes[114]. It should also be noted that an ancient
territory in that area was known as Lubdu or Lubdi[115]. In addition, a kingdom known as the
Kingdom of Albania once existed in that region and the area was also known as
Iberia. Today Albania's official name is Shqiperi, but it is probably not a
derivative of Iperia or Iberia. Rather, Shqiperi means 'Land of the Eagles'.

The
Albanians are also known as the Arben, Arber or Arbereshe tribes113, "Arberia being a word akin to
Berber or Barber"114.
Among the Berbers of North Africa today are the Kabyles or Cabyles. Contrary to
the dolicocephalicy and mesocephalicy of the Berbers, the Kabyles are
brachycephalic, have a white skin and there are many blondes among them115. Theyare also the only white race speaking a Hamitic language116.No one really knows for sure where they came from, but
historians and anthropologists do acknowledge that there have been migrations
from south-east Europe to North Africa and visa versa117. Twoprophecies in Ezekiel and Jeremiah refers to a branch of the Lydians
(Hebrew "Lud") dwelling in North Africa118. Another in Nahum refers to the Lubim in
North Africa119
.Whether the latter refers to Lehabim or the Ludbu one cannot state either way
with certainty.

Ammianus
Marcellinus mentions a city of Cabyle in Thrace120 and the tribe of the Chalybes as
dwelling in northern Asia Minor, near or in Armenia121. While Pliny refers to the tribe of the
Cabyleti as dwelling on the banks of the Maritza in Thrace, south-east Europe122 and the Albani, Chalybes and
Armeno-chalybe tribes as dwelling in or near Georgia123. In addition we had the town of Chalybon
in Syria124,
the Chalybs river and the Calybes tribe in Spain125. Perhaps this tribe descended from Lud
too.

THE FUTURE OF EAST EUROPE

Lud
in Albania may form part of the prophesied United States of Europe, but
prophecy does not specify. However, the Bible speaks in terms of history
repeating itself. Will the Elamites be doomed to repeat their history? As
Solomon, the wisest man to have lived, wrote:

"The thing that
hath been, it is that which shall be; And that which is done, is that which
shall be done: And there is no newthing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, 'see,
this is new?' it has been already of old time , which was before us."126

In World War One Croatia, Austro-Hungary and Bulgaria were
allies of Germany. In World War Two Hungary, Roumania, Croatia, Montenegro and
Albania were allies of the Axis forces. Will history repeat itself? Will the
Slavic nations of South-eastern Europe be involved in a United States of
Europe? Bible prophecy may indicate such:

"And it shall come
to pas in that day, that the Lord shall set His hand again the second time to
recover the remnant of His People [Israel], which shall be left, from Assyria,
and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush [yes, India will be involved in
enslaving the Israelites in its region of the world] and from Elam [East
Europe], and from Shinar [modern Babylon - the United States of Europe], and
from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea [Japan, South America]"127
.

A
part of Elam, it would seem, will be joined with Europe and be involved in the
future captivity of the House of Israel. These may be those of south-east
Europe who were allied with Germany in the two World Wars and which were also
within the Roman Empire. It is these which are described by Ezekiel as being in
the service of the king of Babylon (Europe) when it invades Egypt128. Isaiah allies them with the peoples of Kir who were
anciently in Anatolia but who are now in Europe129. In other prophecies, however, Elam is allied with the Medes
against Babylon. From this it would appear that there will be a break-up of the
European combine and that certain nations of Elam such as Poland and
Czechoslovakia may align with the nations of the east during the Tribulation:

And
through the prophet Jeremiah, God Almighty thunders a blistering warning to the
East Europeans :

" 'Behold, I will
break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. And upon Elam will I bring the
four quarters of heaven [war], and will scatter them toward all those winds...
' '...And I will bring evil upon them, in my fierce anger...and I will send the
sword after them, till I have consumed them... 'But it shall come to pass on
the latter days , that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord'
"131.

Watch
out Eastern Europe. God says what He means and means what He says! Already we
can see that the Balkans are splitting down the middle: a part inexorably
tending toward Russia and part toward Germany. How like the ancient
double-headed eagle symbol so prominent in the region. It is the official crest
of Albania and of Serbia and Montenegro. The long history of this creature goes
back to Rome where the single-headed variety symbolised the one Roman State.
But when, in the fourth century, Emperor Constantine devolved the eastern half
of the Empire to another emperor and another capital was established at
Constantinople (modern Istanbul), the Christian church was also involved in the
administration.

Thus
metaphorically, there was a double-headed eagle, looking both west and east.
Again, metaphorically, the neck ran down the Balkans: to its east was Serbia
and on its west lay Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia. Later, the Turks invaded and
devoured the eastern Roman Empire. Even after the Turks were driven out of the
region, the impact of their presence in reinforcing the divisions and
introducing another religion to the already awkward relationships, remain to
this day.

SUGGESTED READING

Dvornik,F (1956)The
Slavs. Their Early History and Civilization. American Academy

of
Arts and Sciences, Boston, USA.

Fernandez-Armesto,F (1994)Guide to the Peoples of Europe.
Times Books, London.

THE ORIGIN OF THE
WHITE RUSSIANS AND BALTS

In this chapter we discuss the origins of
the White Russians, Lithuanians and Latvians. Various other nations will be
touched upon.

THE MITANNI

The descendants of
Abraham through Keturah settled in the region of the Caucasus, both north and
south of the mountain range[116].
After multiplying greatly, they came pouring down into Anatolia and northern
Mesopotamia, being known at that time as the Hurrians[117].
One branch of Hurrians became known as the Mitanni and their rulers the
Maryanni. They were evidently named after their forefather Midian. Dr Cowley
suggests that these Mitanni are directdescendants of Midian[118].

The Mitanni were of the
Aryan branch of the Indo-Europeans[119]
with their fair skin and often-times blonde hair. The bust of Queen Nefertete
(a Midianitess) and the wife of Pharoah Ammonhotep, reveal her features and
facial type as clearly Nordic[120].
They clearly invoked the actual gods of the Aryans and used their Vedicnames. It may be significant that the first
god they invoked is the Vedic Sun-god, Mitra or Mithra! In so many ways they
were quite similar to their neighboursthe Hittites[121].
Dr Gayre writes :

"The evidence for the connection
with Aryans rests not only on the evidence we have given, and their location,
but on such things as god-names. Thus they had Teshup, who is identical with
Tarku, Huthor [emphasis mine] of Anatolia. The nearby Hittite military
aristocracy had Mitra, Uranna and Nasaatiia (Mitra, Varunna, Indra and
Nasatya). One of the Mitannian tribes was called the Kharri, and some think
this is Arya"[122].

Many Mitanni settled for
a time in Asshur[123]which was merely the linking up of "contiguous" peoples[124]
as their military ruling classes were related[125].
Their royal names reflected their worship of the Aryan deities and they
possessed specialised knowledge of horse-breeding like their relatives in
north-west India[126].
One of their gods was Teshub, the god of battles, with his thunderbolt in his
hand; he was later called Thor in Europe. Like the Hittites, their relatives,
they were a very warlike people[127].

What became of these
mysterious Mitanni after their kingdom fell c 1400 BC? Haddon comments

"The 'Aryans' of Mitanni
were called by the Greeks Mattienoi; they are possibly the ancestors of the
modern Kurds"[128].

Indeed, the Kurds may
well be the mixed remnant of the Mittanni and Hittites. But what of those which
did not mix? Of them Field notes that "nothing more is heard of them; they
disappear in unknown India"[129].

THE LAND OF
RASHU

A famous prophecy in the
book of Ezekiel speaks of a ruling class (or formerly ruling class) over the
Great Russians (Meschech and Tubal) :

"Son of
man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meschech
and Tubal"[130].

The marginal note for
this verse reads "or, Prince of the chief". The translaters derived
this from Jerome's Latin Vulgate which read "Principem Capitis",
because the Hebrew word for "chief prince" is "Ro'sh"[131],
meaning "head" or "leader"[132].
The Septuagint rendering is "Ruler of Rosh".

Who is Rosh? Where is
Rosh? And what has Rosh to do with the vanished Mitanni? Everything!

You may search the
scriptures from one end to the other, and you will find only one Rosh
mentioned, and that is in Genesis. He was a son of Benjamin[133],
one of ten brothers. When we come to the book of Numbers, only five are
mentioned[134].
Later, in I Chronicles, only three are referred to[135].
Why? Either because their line had become extinct[136],
or because they had migrated outwards as they were, by instinct, a pioneering,
adventurous and exploring people. The tribe of Benjamin, or rather a part of
it, was possibly in Asia Minor at some stage[137]
and if so, probably dwelt with the Mitanni. Both because the Mitanni were blond
and/or because Rosh lived with them, the Kingdom of Mitanni became known as the
"land of Rashu"[138],
Rash or Rosh meaning "blond". Also, nearby dwelt the Urartians,
descendants of Arphaxad. Their last great dynast was RusaII who built great
cities and huge defences. He established the religious centre and fortress of
Rusai-urau.tur or Rusa-patari which means 'the small city of Rusa'[139].
Where are the Rosh today?

Herodotus wrote that the
Matienians from the land of Rosh were with the peoples of Tubal and Meschech[140];
while Pliny wrote of the Matiani as moving into southern Russia over the
Caucasus[141].
Dr Gesenius in his Hebrew and English Lexicon wrote that

"Rosh was a designation
for the tribes then north of the Taurus Mountains, dwelling in the
neighbourhood of the Volga"[142].

He concluded that in
this name we have the first trace, historically, of the Rus or Russian state.

ROSH - THE
ORIGINAL RUSSIANS

Bishop Lowth of England
wrote in 1710 that Rosh should be taken as a proper name in Ezekiel from whence
the Russians derive their name.[143]

I feel that it is important
to quote at length from another source to cement this important concept in the
reader's mind. This time from an incredible author during the early years of
this century, G.G. Rupert, who wrote the famous Yellow Peril. In it he
quotes from Dr Daniel Schenkel's Bibel-Lexicon:

"Rosh in Hesek 38:2, 3;
39:1, is the name of a people of the north, named along with Meschech and
Tubal, and all together as subject people of Gog...Rosh as a proper name for a
people does not , to be sure, occur anywhere else before the tenth century
A.D., when it is found in use by Byzantine and oriental writers; but the
statements concerning the same people, dwelling in northern Taurus, as also
towards the Muscovite Mountains, or, as some other authors maintain, on the
Taurian Peninsula (Crimea), and still further to the north along the Volga, -
agree in a most striking manner with the combination of Rosh, Meschech, and
Tubal...Rosh is the oldest historical name to designate the tribal peoples of
the Russians of history, a combination which already Bocharat has made , and
for whom as a connecting link he has taken the Roxolani or Roxalani mentioned
by Pliny (62-110), Ptolemy, and others, taking it for granted that the latter
name arose from a connection of the Rox-Rosh with the Alani"[144].

The German scholar, Dr
Keil, after very thorough grammatical analysis of Ezekiel 38:2-3 states that
the work translated "chief prince" should be correctly rendered as a
proper name, Rosh. He says, that many Arabic and Byzantine writers frequently
mention a people which they call Ros or Rus dwelling among certain Scythian
tribes in the country of Taurus[145].
Another researcher, Victor Kachur, in one of his works, makes mention of the
Rusi who were in southern Russia; they claimed that many of their tribe were
living with the Cimmerian Scythians[146].
Interestingly, Bowle maintains that although the name "Rus" is a
Norse word, there is enough evidence that it is of Iranian origin[147].
The Mitanni-Rosh dwelt on the border of ancient Iran and spoke the
Aryan/Iranian tongue.

What does
"Rus" mean? Blond![148]
(an alternative hypothesis suggests that the word may be of Scandinavian
origin, meaning 'raft'). Interestingly, the White Russians or Byelorussians
claimed that Ross or Russ was their ancestor[149]
. Byelorussia, also spelt Belorussia and called White Ruthenia, is situated
close to the Baltic Sea (see any modern map of the Soviet Union). According to
Lubachko, the name of Belaia Rus or Belarus derives from the fact that they are
a people with light-coloured hair[150].

Cross lists their tribes
as the Polyanians, Derevlians, the peoples of Novgorod, Severians,
Dregovichians, Polotians and the "Buzhians, who live along the river
Bug"[151].
But Geipel lists them as Severjane, Radimichi, Krivitchi, Polotchane and
Dregovitchi[152].
The tribe of the Nervy may be their ancestors[153].

THE VARANGIAN
RUS

The true origins of
Russia may be told in the Chronicle of Nestor or Russian Primary
Chronicle which was written in Perchersky Monastry of Kiev toward the end
of the 11th century, placing the following event in 862 AD. Of these tribes it
says:

"Among them there was no
law, and tribe rose up against tribe, and there were feuds among them, and they
began to fight each other. And they spoke among themselves : 'We must find a
prince who will rule justly over us'. And they crossed the sea to the Varangians,
the Rus, for the Varangians were called Rus, as others are called Swedes,
others Norwegians and Anglians, others Gotlanders, thus also these men. The
Chaudes, Slovenes, Krivichi and Vesses said to these Rus, 'Our land is great
and rich, yet there is no order in it. Come therefore and rule over us'"[154].

They knew that the
peoples of north-west Europe possessed leadership and administrative qualities!
Who could their ancestors be ? Professor Hannay explains that the tribe of Benjamin,
or a part of it, migrated into Scandinavia[155]!
And a son of Benjamin was Rosh, as was mentioned earlier. No wonder that area
of Russia south of the Baltic Sea became known as "Swithoid the
Great" or "Sweden the Great". Thus it may have been the Vikings
who gave the name of Rus to the White Russians[156].

While western scholars
accept this as the origins of the Rus, Soviet scholars contend that the Rus
were Slavs from the southern steppes[157].
Both are probably correct as we have seen for there is no evidence of a tribe
from Scandinavia called Ros or Rus. But a tribe of the Antes was known as the
'Ros' and later modified to 'Rus' which resided along the river Ros, a
tributary of the Dnieper in the southern Ukraine, just north of the Black Sea[158].

The Varangian Vikings
thus created the first Rus state with the capital at Kiev. They went on wild
raids further south not unlike that of their brethren into Britain and France
during the same general period of history[159].
Dr V.Thomsen, writing in The Relations between Ancient Russia and
Scandinavia, and the Origin of the Russian Staterelates how the Russ became familiar to Constantinople as they
(the Viking-Varangian-Rus) threatened that city[160].
The ninth chapter of the work by Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus (written c
950AD) is titled About the Rhos who came from Russia to Constantinople with
their boats. He gives the names of the rapids through which the Rhos came.
The 'Russian' words are pure Scandinavian[161].
In fact, all the Russian royal family of the House of Rurik in the early
chronicles have pure Scandinavian names. The Russian Primary Chronicle
records Rurik as the first mysterious ruler of Russia. He was succeeded by his
som Oleg who rapidly expanded the kingdom southwards - it was he who forced a
treaty from the Byzantine Empire in 907AD.

After they had completed
their work in White Russia, the mass of these eastern Vikings later returned to
Scandinavia[162],
their royal house remaining and probably intermarrying with the White Russians.

When the Mongols sacked
Moscow and swarmed into western Russia, they took back captive with them tens
of thousands of White Russians. This accounts for their demise, which has been
accentuated in the Twentieth Century; not only were tens of thousands
slaughtered during the Revolution of 1917, not only did Stalin murder even more
during the great purges of the 1930s, but it had been a Communist policy to
Slavinise the neo-Nordic peoples of the Baltic region[163].

These fair White
Russians, who are much fairer than the Great Russians[164],
have now gained independence from Russia. However, they, together with the
Balts, comprise a mere 10 millions or 6% of the total Soviet population[165]. A tragic
predicament for a once great people who should have much greater numbers.

Prophetically, nothing
much is said about Midian, being a small portion of the eastern hordes. Perhaps
the hordes in the book of Judges where they are allies of the Amalekites (Gog),
type the future eastern hordes[166].
And through Habbakuk, God says that the Midianites (the Mitanni) will tremble
at Him when He begins to intervene in world affairs[167].

MEDAN

Midian's brother was
Medan. Who could be descended from him today?

Historically, the
Medanites dwelt alongside the Mitanni and they formed a kingdom in the tenth
and ninth centuries BC. It is for this reason that historians call the Mitanni
the "early Medes". The empire of the Medanites or Medes is often
referred to in textbooks as the Amadai-Mada-Medes empire[168].
The Amadai were descendants of Madai who were subject to the Medes, the ruling
class of the Empire. The tribes of the Median empire were: the Busae,
Paretaceni, Struchates, Arizanti, Budii and Magi. Some were descended from
Medan, others from Madai.

What was the physical
type of the Medes? All historians mention that the earliest tribes of the
Medians "belonged to the Aryan stock"[169]
and as such were an Indo-European people[170]
andthey formed a ruling class over the
Madai[171].
This Mede ruling class called themselves Arioi or Arii[172],
meaning Aryan.

The Medes were more
numerous and important than the Persians who were a Median tribe who broke away[173].
The Persians were first in the central-west areas of Persia then later in the
south-west [174].
From what can be gathered by historians, these Aryan Persians originated in a
far away land called Airyanem-Vaejo and came into the Iranian plateau from
southern Russia[175].
They were basically pastoral and possessed watch-dogs, sheep, oxen and horses.
They travelled in wagons which had axles and wheels. In general, researchers
trace the Indo-Aryans to the Austro-Hungarian plains or in southwest Russia[176].
I agree that that is where many of them migrated to, but their homeland prior
to that would have been in the Middle East. Professor Hannay throws further
light on the original Persians:

"the present inhabitants
of Persia...succeeeded to territories which were abandoned...and to a name
imprinted thereon by the ...White Race which then disappeared. These incomers,
who now go by the name of Farsiyan...are doubtless the descendants of the
Non-Persian subject-populations of antiquity, are not racially identical with
the Persians who vanished" [177].

Professor Sayce, writing
in his famous Races of the Old Testament, agrees that the original
Persians belonged to the fair-skinned, Nordic division of the White Race:

"The physical type of the
country-men of Darius and Xerxes, like that of their modern descendants, was
Aryan in all of its traits. Travellers still speak of the fair-complexioned,
blue-eyed populations met with in the Persian highlands...The Persians were at
the outset a Median tribe"[178].

They called themselves
Airya (Aryan). Darius the Great on his tomb calls himself "an Arya of
Arya(n) descent". Xerxes called himslf "harri", meaning
"noble" or Aryan. Today Persia is known as Iran or Aryan, but these
people are not the original Persians or Medes as we have seen. Professor Sayce
affirms that the original Persians were a tribe who were originally with the
Medes and who left them and had established themselves next to the Elamites[179].
He further states that

"The Medes proper were an
Aryan people, who claimed relationship to the Aryans of Northern India and the
Aryan populations of Europe, and one of the tribes belonging to them was that
of the Persians...But in classical times the older inhabitants of the regions
into which the Medes migrated were classed along with them under the general
title of 'Medes' "[180].

According to Herodotus,
the Persian tribes were : the Pasargadae (Persian Goths?), Maraphii, Maspii
(descendants of Mash?), Panthialaei, Derusiaei, Germani (certain
Hittites), Dai, Mardi (a tribe of Elamites), Dropci and Sagartii[181].
They called the land which they settled in southern Iran as Parsuash. The same
territory is still called Farsistan to this day. Their chief towns were
Persepolis and Parsagarda after which the Hebrews called the Persians
"Parsa"[182]
and the Euphrates River "Perath" or "Peres" - "River
of the Persians". Of course the name originated from a geographical region
in southern Iran which was called "Persis", the Greek form of the old
Persian "Parsa". After the Assyrian Empire collapsed, the Persians
annexed Elam. They became closely identified with the Elamites; the Persian
kings even ruled from the Anshan district of Susa in Elam. It seems quite
plausible that the true, original Persians, descend from Medan and/or two sons
of Midian, Ephah and Epher. These may be the Apharsites mentioned by Ezra[183]
and whom Bullinger and others reckon as Persians[184].

The peoples in Persia
today are mixed. The fairest Persians are those living around Persepolis who
are slender, have chestnut hair and are fairer than the surrounding Persians
and there are still a few blondes among them[185].
In north-west Iran many blondes persist[186]
and many still have features akin to Europeans[187].
None have kept themselves separate and they have heavily intermarried with the
Semites[188]
and others.

However, the original
inhabitants of the area were, of course, the self-same Medo-Persians referred
to in the book of Daniel which conquered Babylon in October 539 BC while its
king Nabonidus was away campaigning in Arabia at the time and it took some time
to capture him[189]
(Belshazzar was second in line after Nabonidus and Daniel was the third ruler;
see Daniel 5:1, 7, 16, 30). The Bible predicts that the coming Babylon/US of
Europe would begin to arise 2520 years after the subjugation of Babylon. In
this light, Time magazine had an amazing front cover in a mid-1990
edition[190];
in fact, 90% of this edition was devoted to German reunification! The cover depicted
the two Germanies growing together out of a truncated tree stump - Daniel
himself likened it to such[191].
Each of the Germanies represented the leading powers of Western and Eastern
Europe (minus Russia) and it is a united Germany which is leading the two
halves of Europe toward eventual unification in the prophesied National
European Socialist Empire. This amazing process sees the European nations
overtaking the Israelitish nations in financial, economic, political and even
military power and would culminate in the Great Tribulation when Israel's
blindness to her national origins will be lifted.

THE BRAHMINS

Most people have heard
of the Brahmin caste of India. Who are they? In India the Persians were known
as Parsees, from whom descend, in part, the Brahmins who were also the highest
cast. Brahmin means "son of Abraham"!

The Brahmins, although
now substantially mixed, are fairer than the average Indian, tall, slim and
some with red hair - even somewhat Nordic in appearance[192].
They ruled India for centuries despite invading armies, religions and dynasties[193].
They collected their laws and customs in the Code of Manu, setting the
law into three branches : domestic and civil rights and duties; administration
and justice; and religious purifications and penance. They kept the castes
apart, forbidding intermarriage[194].
They did not adhere strictly to this policy and no pure Brahmin may be found
today.

Descended in part from
Abraham through Medan, they, via their amazing work, spread the Code of Manu
and became the civilizers of ancient India[195].

WHERE ARE THE
MEDES AND PERSIANS TODAY?

When the peoples of
Madai migrated to the Ukraine, the unmixed Medanites migrated with them and
dwelt in close proximity to Madai and Midian as they had in the Middle East in
previous centuries. Pliny refers to these Medanites as the tribe of Medi which dwelt
north-west of the Black Sea[196].
Of Thrace he writes

"the Medi, who live on
the right bank of the river Struna right up to the Bisaltae abovementioned, and
the Digerri and the various sections of the Bessi on the left bank, as far as
the river Mesto"[197].

Herodotus mentions that
the Medes were in upper Asia or inner Asia, north of the Caucasian Mountains[198]
and Strabo stated that the Medi were a people of Thrace bordering on the
Illyrian Thunatae (ie western Ukrainian/Rumanian area)[199].

Broadly speaking, the
Medi dwelt in western Russsia near and in Rumania. Lempriere's Classical
Dictionary also makes reference to them, but as the "Medobythini,
a people of Thrace"[200].
Today one branch of these Medo-Persian people is known as the Buzhians or
Volhynians and they dwell in north-west Ukraine. Physical anthropologists tell
us that like the White Russians, they are shorter than the Ukrainians and have
a high percentage of blondes. Overall, their eyes are a light-brown in colour,
but many have blue eyes. They are fair-skinned[201]
and like their mixed remnants in Iran, their headform is brachycephalic[202]
and their closest genetic relatives are the White Russians[203].
It should also be noted that a river in the Baltic region was known as the
Persante[204]
which may be a direct derivation of Persian.

As they migrated into
Russia out of the Middle East, their language gradually changed. D'iakonov
notes

"The fate of the Iranian
dialects is ... very vague ... in the first millenium B.C.E. the language of
the Ukrainian Scythians was still understandable for the ancient Medians"[205].

Such a revelation. His
statement is obviously self-explanatory. We have seen historical reference to
the Medi and Medo tribes in the western Ukraine as being descended from the
original Medes. One of the tribes of the Medes was Budii as we have seen.
Herodotus refers to the Budini (or Boudini) nation he visited near the
Borysthenes[206].
They dwelt among the Sauromatai. Soviet historian Vakar writes that the
word Budini is a variation of Vudini, Veneti, Venedi or Vendi and thatauthorities feel that they may well be the
most ancient of Slavic tribes and remote ancestors of the Belorussians[207].

The Volhynians are often
included with the Belorussians by historians. Let us also remember that the
original name of the Volhynians was Buzhians[208].
One of the tribes of the Persians was Busae, as we saw previously. Surely,
then, the blonde, neo-Nordic Volhynians descend from the Medo-Persians? Another
tribe among the Medo-Persians was the Sagartii. In southern Russia anciently
dwelt the Saghadu[209]
or Sagetai[210].
Various other people in that area were called Persae and Parthi by Roman
writers[211].
With them were the Dahi tribe, no doubt descended from the Dai tribe of Persia.

Another tribe of ancient
Persia was the Derusiaei - could this have been the forerunner of the
name Russians? A district of Medo-Persia was named Gedrosia [212]and later we find the Gerus
or Gerrhus river in Georgia flowing into the Caspian Sea[213].
Another river with the same name was found in Scythia[214].
Also, a city of Gerusa once existed in Georgia[215].

ORIGINS OF
THE RUMANIANS

The eastern and central
Rumanians are descended from the Daci[216]
which are probably descended from the Daae, Dahae or Dai tribe, who, according
to Lempriere, were "a people of Scythia, who dwelt on the borders of the
Caspian sea in what is now Dahistan"[217].
On the following page he refers to the "Dai, a nation of Persia"[218].
The Rumanians touch upon the Volhynians to their north and to their east dwell
the Ukrainians.

Professor Hannay
believes that the name of the Rumanian Moldavians appears to be
traceable to the Dacians, once known as Dakhan, Daghan, Dahi[219]
or Davi[220].
However, for some reason, he believes them to be descended of the Kassi hill
tribe of Anshan[221].
He writes that a tribe called the Daaians was referred to by Herodotus as being
a Persian tribe[222]
and later known as the Dahae of Daghestan in Hyrcania[223].
In a footnote he states that the Daaians were originally one with the Kassi of
Elam. Further on in his book he states that the Russian province of Daghestan
marks their movement through the area[224].

Pliny also makes
reference to them[225].
Personally, I feel that the Moldavians are descended from the Dai tribe of
Medan, but the western Rumanians (Vlachs or Wallachians) are possibly descended
from the 240,000 Romans who settled there[226]
and who gave Rumania (or Romania) her name and Latin/Romance tongue, an anomaly
among the Slavic nations[227].
Many of these Romans fled back westwards before the Goths[228]
and this group is a minority in Rumania today.

WHO ARE THE
LETTS ?

From whom do the
Latvians (Letts) and Lithuanians descend? Racially, they are related to the
North Germans to their west and Byelorussians and Volhynians(Buzhians) in the south. Thus we must look
at the names of the descendants of Abraham through Keturah. Here we find a
grandson of Abraham and son of Dedan with the name of Letushim[229],
father of the Letts. It is most likely that they dwelt either with Asshurim
(the Hittites) or Midian (the Mitanni). Thus it should come as no surprise to
us if the Lithuanians and Latvians eventually break completely from the orbit
of Russia and confederate with the coming German-led United States of Europe.

In any event, they
originally dwelt in that region and descended down from the area to the north
of Lake Van, from the district of Kuro-Araxes[230]
"ur" meaning light or white (skinned). This appellation was given to
Asia Minor with both itself and the Hittite colonies in northern Syria named
"Kur"[231].
Syria was called Kuru or Kura. These Hittites who fled to north-west India were
called "Kuru" or "Krivi" in the Vedas[232].

Historically the Kurus
were the leading Aryan tribe in the war of partition of Gangetic India. They
state in their tradition that they were driven forth from their homeland in
Kuru[233],
but few historians trace them back to Asia Minor and few realize that the great
migration to Gangetic India is called Kuru-Panchala in the Vedas[234].
Kur means, or came to mean, mountain land[235].

Those who remained in
Asia Minor mixed with the other races known as the Kurds and their land
is known as Kurdistan[236].
About half of them still possess blue eyes[237]
and there persists a few blondes and red-heads among both them and the Afghans[238].
As one travels eastwards, their head shape changes and they become rounder
(brachycephalic) like the Irano-Afghan peoples, as well as a deepening
pigmentation of their skin[239].
Because they bear certain physical characteristics in comon with the peoples of
northern Europe, they are sometimes called proto-Nordic[240].

The Kurds have been oft
mentioned in the news media due to their efforts to survive the onslaught of
the governments in the region, particularly the Iraqis. It is estimated that at
least 3,000 Kurdish villages were razed during the 1980s in an all out effort
to deprive the guerillas of their support in the countryside - this has led to
their traditional social structures and tribal loyalties being undermined. The
attempts to force them to assimilate Arabic culture has been terribly cruel.
Yet much of their attachment to their structures remains which is due, in part,
to their amazing ancient lineage. They have probably, by all accounts, remained
in the same general locaton, longer than any other race on earth. Persian epic
poems record the Kurdish tribes of the Babans, Habadanis, Bokhtis, Mihranis and
Mukris in the 5th century BC.

Taylor, writing in his
work, Environment and Nation, claims that the Kurds have the same origin
as the Medes[241].
And von Luschan writes

"I might be allowed to sugest
that the Kurds, Amorites of the Bible [like some writers he probably means the
Amaraeans], the Mitanni ... and the Tamehu of the old Egyptian texts, are, if
not identical, at east somehow related to one another. About 1500 BC or
earlier, there seems to have begun a migration of northern men [Aryans] to Asia
Minor, Syria, Persia, Egypt, and India"[242].

Researchers Hazhir
Teimourian and Philip Howard state that they are the original Aryans and
great-grandfathers of all Indo-Europeans[243].
I have before me an excellent article "The Poetry of Kurdistan",
published in The World and I , August 1991[244].
Photographs contained in this article indicate that there are clearly several
physical anthropological types among them, ranging from very swarthy peoples to
some which can barely be distinguished from north west Europeans! Today they
number some 25 millions, stretching across several nations (Iraq, Iran, Turkey,
Syria and Armenia). A few are even found in far away Turkmenia near the city of
Ashkhabad, to the east of the Caspian Sea as well as in Baluchistan in the
extreme east of Iran near the border with Afghanistan! The same article
mentions their close relationship to the original Medes and Persians and that
they have mixed to a large degree with other nations round about. Given the
facts presented, it is most likely that the Kurds represent the mixed remnants
of some of these peoples which did not migrate out of the region[245].

FROM
NORTHWEST INDIA TO THE BALTIC

According to Indian
tradition, Yima placed a large colony of people in Lithuania who had followed
him from northwest India[246].
Some of these were called Assura, descendants, no doubt, of Asshurim.

With them came the Kurus
of northern India, the same Kurs or Kuras who had fled Asia Minor. Today the
Lithuanians (Livs) and Latvians (Letts) are still known as the Kurs or Kurgans.
They have named their land as Kurland, Courland or Curonia (Latvian
"Kurzerne") after the Latvian tribe of Kuri (Cori or Kursi).
The Grand Duchy of Courland, formed in 1561, was also named after them as is
the southwestern coastal strip of Latvia which is still known as Kurland (and
sometimes as Latgale or Lettgallen).

What evidence is there
that they migrated from northwest India? Plenty of evidence does exist, but
unfortunately, many historians overlook them and infer only to the remote
possibility of their origins in Asia Minor or India. In the first instance, we
have the strange occurrence of two villages in Latvia, adjacent to each other,
called Indra and Dagda, named after two leading deities[247].
Indra itself preserves the name of the Indian storm god[248].
Further, linguists know that

"Lithuanian, among
European languages, has the best claim to represent the primitive [Aryan]
speech. The Teutonic languages...have lost many of the old inflexions which
have been preserved in the Slavo-Lettic languages, and more especially
Lithuanian"[249].

To this day Lettish and
Lithuanian retain all the Sanskrit reflections. They have forty percent to
sixty percent of words originating with the Sanskrit and the gods of both
nations were Ayran deities from northwest India[250].
As a result, linguists are very much aware that the Lithuanian tongue is so
ancient that, in many repects, even the Vedic Sanskrit looks rather modern in
comparison! Thus, the Lithuanian speech area is a major criterion to aid
historians in tracing the origins of the Indo-Europeans[251].

Trubacev, an expert in
Baltic languages, mentions that there are a great many similarities between
Baltic and Anatolian languages and place names : Kavvoc, a city in Caria and
Kaunas in Lithuanian, and various other cities on the Black Sea coast and the
name of a lake:

"Examples of Baltic
correspondences in Asia Minor and in Thracia can be multiplied by referring
to...important parallels...The quoted terms encompass not only Troas and
Bithynia but also Caria"[252].

Several Hindu customs
were apparent in Lithuania until the thirteenth or fourteenth century. For
example the wife had to follow her deceased husband to death, accordingto Gimbutas, author of The Balts . He
also mentions that the incredible similarities between the Lithuanian tongue
and Sanskrit are, as he put it, "curious"[253].
It is apparent to many that their language is the closest to primitive Sanskrit
than any other European tongue[254].

Further, Bilmanis who
wrote A History of Latvia, mentions how very close to the Indian
mythology and sun-worship the Latvian religion was[255].
He concludes that the Latvians probably originated in far away India or Persia.
Here is one historian who is brave enough to face this reality head-on (an
excellent short summary of their history is found in Carleton Coon's Races
of Europe, pp 360-363).

PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE BALTS

The Balts are sometimes
referred to as a hybrid cross between an Alpine and Nordic sub-race, with
perhaps some Mongoloid infusion. It is now admitted that the Mongoloid infusion
postulation is a myth and that they are most definitely a type which is
described as Alpine Nordic[256].
John Baker in his fascinating book, Race, asserts that they are not a
mix, but rather simply a different sub-race[257].

Physically, the Latvians
and Lithuanians are very closely related[258]
; together with the Estonians (Ests), they form the East Baltique or East
Baltic group. They are also related to the White Russians (Midian) in the south
and East Prussians (known also as the Old Prussians and West Baltics. Ie the
Asshurim). There are many dolicocephalic and brachycephalic variations among
them and they often have a broad angular face and a stub-nose[259].
And like many of the Hittites and Mitanni their hair is flaxen blonde (the
average Nordic blonde is platinum or golden or a range between that)[260].

Blonde hair and blue
eyes predominate. The Latvians are 99% blondes and 88% blue eyes[261].
The Latvians and Lithuanians differ little from each other: the Lithuanians on
the whole are slightly shorter than the Letts, but are slightly broader. Their
bodily hair is slightly less that the Letts as well. Johnston aptly describes
the physical attributes of these descendants of Abraham:

"As a race the
Lithuanians preserve some of the primitive Aryan characters - tall and shapely
figures, oval face, long thin nose, blue eyes, thin lips, white skin. They are
thus less akin to the Alpine Slavs than to the northern Teutons"[262].

Today there are only 1.7
million Latvians and 2.8 million Lithuanians.

In some ways the
Estonians are similar to the Byelorusians and thus may be related to the east
Prussians[263].
All we know with certainty is that they came from a region to the east of the
Urals and it seems most likely that they are related to the Finnic peoples.
They number a mere 1.1 millions today. They may well be descendants of Riphath
(this will be discussed more fully in a forthcoming booklet).

THE
HUNGARIANS

Related to the
Estonians, whether closely or distantly, it is not known, are the Hungarians,
also an East Baltique people with Dinarid strains in the west[264]
plus a little Slavic infusion on the edges. Some thought that they were
originally a Mongoloid people who became westernised through intermarriage.
This theory is now rejected. They were one of the nations comprising the Huns
and were Mongoloid in certain aspects of lifestyle, but certainly not by race[265].
However, today there is a tiny Mongoloid enclave in Hungary called the Pussta[266],
but the majority of Hungarians are not descended from them. It seems likely
that the Pussta are descended from the Avars, a Mongoloid people who settled in
Hungary at one stage[267].
It is most interesting that the Hungarian language belongs to the Finno-Ugric
family of languages[268]
as did the Sumerian tongue[269],
yet both the Hungarians and post-flood neo-Sumerians (there was a pre-flood
culture also known as Sumerian) were not Turkics (Turanids)[270].
Writing of the Sumerians, Williams, an historian, writes that they were an Indo
European race and that attempts have been made to connect them with the
Ugro-Finnish branch of the Ural-Altaic family[271].

Also of interest is that
these post-flood neo-Sumerians were great civilizers and were associated with
the Elamites and had a similar culture to them[272].
Could the Hungarians be descended from the neo-Sumerians? In this light,
nineteenth century Hungarian romantic historian Count Bertholdi, who became
Foreign Minister of Austro-Hungary, traced strong parallels between the modern
Hungarians and the Sumerians.

One Hungarian tradition
is that they descend from Nimrod, but this is not possible due to their
Caucasion race and Nimrod's Hamitic origins[273].
Tradition also traces them to a Persian province of Evilath while others
attempt to identify Evilath with the city of Eiulath or Edessa (Urfa)[274].
Either way, they definitely are traceable to the Middle East.

One descendant of Dedan,
Leummim, I still have not found, but they should be in the same general area as
their brethren. It is only a matter of time before they, too, will be
discovered. Similarly with Ishbak. Zimran may be the neo-Nordic element which
anthropologists have noted are scattered throughout eastern Europe. A prophecy
in Jeremiah appears to suggest such a possiblility[275].

The final descendant of
Keturah which we have yet to investigate is Shuah, which we shall find is also
very difficult to trace. But let us attempt to do so. Bildad the Shuhite was
from this tribe[276].
We find that in ancient Assyria there was a district named Suhu on the right
hand bank of the Euphrates[277].
In addition, there was a district in Anatolia known as Isua during the
neo-Assyrian period (c700 BC)[278].

It is possible that they
migrated into Europe with the Assyrians for Lempriere's Classical Dictionary
mentions the "Suardones, a people of Germany"[279].
These may be the Suarines identified by Tacitus as dwelling on the north-east
coast of Germany.

Wiseman,DJ
(1973) Peoples of Old
Testament Times. Oxford University Press.

Yamauchi,EM (1990)Persia and the Bible. Baker Book House, Michigan.

Chart 3. Abraham's
north-east European Descendants

TERAH

Abraham:

Isaac:

Jacob(Israelites)

EsauTurkics of Central Asia
and western Turkey

IshmaelOriginal Arabs,
scattered in Middle East (Semites).

ZimranScattered in East Europe ?

Jokshan:

ShebaSwabian Germans

Dedan:

AsshurrimCentral West
& East Germans, Prussians

LetushimLatvians, Lithuanians

LeumimEstonians and certain
Finns

MedanVolhynians

MidianWhite Russians (Byelorussians)

Ishbak?

ShuahSuadines of Northern Germany

NahorNaharvali of North-east Austria

Haran:Heruli of Italy

LotJordanians, now extensively mixed with the Arabs

MADAI,
TUBAL AND MESCHECH

In the book of Revelation, a great horde
of peoples is recorded, collectively called the "Kings of the East".
The Greek is "Anatoles heliou" literally translated as "rising
sun"[280] composed of two hundred million troops[281] seen invading Europe and the Middle
East. Who will compose these eastern and northern armies also referred to in
Daniel chapter 11?[282]

ISAIAH'S WARNING

The prophet Isaiah also referred to them:

"The noise of a multitude of mountains, like as of a great
people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of Nations gathered together: the
Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle...Behold, I will stir up the
Medes, against them [the Chaldeans]..."[283]

"Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof,
have I made to cease...'Babylon is fallen, is fallen' "[284]

Jeremiah also predicted the downfall of
modern Babylon at the hands of these northern forces:

"For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against
Babylon an assembly of great Nations from the North country...Behold, a people
shall come from the North, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised
up, from the coasts of the earth.

They shall hold the bow and the lance : they are cruel, and
will not show mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride
upon horses"[285]

"...the Lord hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the
Medes : for his device isagainst Babylon...

...call together against her the kingdomsof Ararat [Georgia, Armenia between the
Black and Caspian Seas in Russia], Minni [anciently the northern frontier of
the Medes] and Aschkenaz [the descendants of Gomer in south-east Asia]..."[286].

We know that initially Russia will be
firm allies with German-led Europe[287]. Ezekiel equates Babylon/Chaldea with
Tyre; the peoples of Tyre are in southern Italy and Sicily, but symbolically it
applies to the coming tremendously prosperous National European Socialist
Empire. God warns the soon-to-arise modern Babylon/ Chaldea/Tyre/Europe

Thus Russia and her Asiatic allies will
have a terrible falling-out with Europe. After this great battle between Europe
and Russia, Christ will return and restore peace to this troubled planet,
slowly but surely extending His righteous rule across the entire globe.

So, dear reader, where may we find
Meschech, Tubal and Madai today? The only way we can understand the prophecies
for our time is if we are able to locate these nations mentioned in God's Word.

THE MODERN DESCENDANTS OF MADAI

The peoples of Madai first dwelt in
North-west Iran, being called the Medes along with Medan. Their capital was Hagmatana
(Persian) or Agbatana in Greek. They were called Ma-da-ai, in the Assyrian
inscriptions and became associated and linked up with the Medanites who invaded
their territory from the west. Thus the names Madai and Medes were used
interchangeably, but the Medanites formed the ruling class.

After the defeat on the Scythians in 584
BC, a colony of Medes was established alongthe Don River. They thus moved north of the Black Sea and into Scythia[289]

The Greeks called them the Sauro-Matae
and they spoke the Scythian tongue[290] which wasmuch like thatof the
peoples of Persia[291] and were also known as Surmatai or
Syrmatai[292]. It would appear that many Elamites, who
dwelt adjacent to the Madai in Iran, probably migrated with them into
south-eastern Europe [see Is.21:2].

Many ancient writers refer to them.
Strabo mentions the Matiani or Matieni[293] as does Herodotus[294] and Pliny[295]. Ammianus Marcellinus speaks of the
Sauro-matians dwelling near the Hister (modern Danube)[296]. We also know that the Sea of Azov was
anciently known as Maeotis Palus; on its shores dwelt the Maioti or Maiotiki[297].

The Sarmatian dagger and sword used by
these people were exactly like that of the Medes[298]. Researcher, Sulimirski, maintains that

"the Sarmatians
were...closely akin to the ancient Medes, Parthians and Persians[299]".

While Rostovtzeff wrote that

"the Scythian kingdom - a formation almost completely
Iranian, a northern counter-part of the kingdom of Darius and Xerxes...the
Sarmatians, whose Iranian nationality is not disputed"[300].

Herodotus wrote that the Medes were
beginning to settle in the Ukraine even in his time. He maintained thatthere was a people who "dress in the
Median fashion" and who "claim to be colonists from Media" that
"live north of Thrace...beyond the Danube"[301]. Pliny noted that

"Next come the two mouths of the river Don, where the
inhabitants are the Sarmatae, said to be descended from the Medes"[302].

Professor Lundman says that the peoples
of Russia, today, around the Black Sea and the Don are "perhaps...vestiges
of the descendants of the Irano-Scythian tribes who inhabited southern Russia
in ancient times"[303].

Who lives today along the Don, in
southern Russia? The Ukrainians! They are also known as the Ruthenians and
Little Russians. They comprise the second largest racial group in Russia after
the Great Russians consisting of some 50 millions.

The Ukrainians near southern Poland and
east Czechoslovakia are more brachycephalic than the others. Those in the
north, the Volhynians, are shorter and are related to the White Russians or
Byelorussians as we have seen in chapter two. The Ukrainians proper living to
the south and east are taller, but their hair and eyes are darker. Their head
forms are virtually identical to that of the Volhynians and blondes are not
uncommon[304], while their eyes are generally a light
brown [305].Finally, Herodotus associates them with
Meschech and Tubal: "the Matienians, the Moschi, Tibereni..."[306].

We should perhaps also realise that
before the advent of Gorbachev and then Yeltsin as Russian President, the
previous ruthless Communist bosses Chernenko, Brezhnev and Khrushchev were all
Ukrainians and not Russian (Stalin was a Georgian and Lenin's father was
probably a Tartar, although his mother was German).

WHERE IS TUBAL ?

In discussing Tubal, Gesenius noted that
Tubal was founder of the Tiberani, "a nation of Asia Minor dwelling by the
Euxine Sea to the West of the Moschi". He concluded that there should be
no doubt that Tubal and Meschech comprise the modern Russian people[307].

The people of Tubal were variously known
as Tubla Tabal or Tabali by the Assyrians who refer to them giving tribute of
"great horses" to Ashurbanipal; Tiberani or Tibarenoi by the Greeks;
and Thobelites by Josephus[308]. They were always identified with the
Moschi in Asia Minor. The Septuagint version translates "Meschech and
Moschi" as "Mosoch and Thobel". Where could they be located
today?

After the Hittite Empire fell (c 1200
BC), the Tabali moved into that territory vacated by the Hittites, establishing
twenty-one city-states[309]. A region of their territory became known as Subartu. The
Tabali of Toboli migrated over the Caucasus like so many others before and
after them. Once in southern Russia they became identified with the Muschovites
and Sarmatians[310], establishing themselves for a time
along the River Volga.

Bohn, the editor of Marco Polo'sTravels, has this to say :

"The Bolgar, Bulgar, or Bulghar, here spoken of is the
name of a town and extensive district in Tartary, lying to the eastward of the
Volga, and now inhabited by the Bashkirs, sometimes distinguished from the
Bulgaria on the Danube, by the appellation of the Greater Bulgaria."[311].

It appears therefore that
"Volga" and "Bulga"are one and the same; they appear to be
identical with the root form of the name Tubal! Huxley agrees that the name
Volga evolved into Bulgaria[312].

Tubal thus split into two like so many
families: one branch migrated northwards, the other westwards. The group which
moved into the Balkan Peninsula became known as the Bulgarians, mingling with
the Sarmatians and adopting their particular Slavic language and customs.

There was a city called Bulghar on the
River Volga, near the River Kiama in the land of the Bulghars [313] also known as Bulgaria![314] Interestingly, a leader of the Khazar
armies which filled the void left by the Toboli after migrating out of southern
Russia, was called Balkan[315].

On the Volga today, all thatis left of the once great city of Bolgara
which Marco Polo mentions in his first chapter, is a little village. It became
the seat of Mongol rule in the thirteenth century for a time.

The mountain range of Hoemus was changed
to the Balkans in south-eastern Europe after the Toboli settled there.
The name recalls the Balkan hills and Balkan Bay alongside the Caspian Sea
where Tubal once settled. Perhaps the name Toplitza in Bulgaria is a derivative
of Tobol[316].

The second syllable of the word
"Bulgaria" is of central Asiatic origin being found in the name of
Kash-ghar in the plateau of Pamir, where some of Tubal once lived. The Bulghars
conquered the native Slavs in that land. To this day there are two types in
Bulgaria : a tall, dark-haired type; and a shorter, fairer type, descendants of
the other Slavs[317].

The other branch of the Toboli migrated
northwards, perhaps giving their name to Lake Bataton Balta and the
Baltic Sea. They are today settled north-east of Moscow around Tobolsk. There
is also the tribe of Tubalai who live on the banks of the Tuba River and
although speak Turkic are perhaps Samoyed[318]. They may have acquired their name from
Tubal.

A place-name alongside the Volga was
known as Siberia[319]. Today, Siberia is in northern Russia
where the Toboloskis migrated. The name originated in the Subartu district of
ancient Tubal in Asia Minor.

Another mutated branch of Tubal may be
the Basques who dwell on the border of Spain and France. Basques is the form of
the Latin Vasco. The French province of Gascogne or Guascogne is named after
them. Also, the mountain range seperating France and Germany is called the
Vosges, anciently called the Wasgen of Forest of the Basques - this signifies
their migration into the area after the Flood. Roger Collins in his excellent
work The Basques states that Basque historian, Esteban de Garibay
published four volumes of his Compendino Historial de las Chronicas
(Antwerp AD 1571) in which he claimed to trace their origins:

"He took up the notion, already popular with other Spanish
antiquarians, that the Iberian peninsula had been populated by the descendants
of Tubal, one of the sons of Japhet the son of Noah. However, he gave this
legend a distinctive twist in making the Basque regions ... the principal focus
of Tubal's activity and he 'proved' this thesis by claiming affinity between
various Basque place-names and those in the Bible that were associated with
Armenia, where the ark had come to rest ..."[320].

Collins then proceeds to give the
similarities in place-names and so forth. Garibay may be correct, but further
investigation is required.

MESCHECH

The descendants of Meschech were
well-known to the people of the Middle East centuries after the great and
terrible flood of Noah.

The Assyrians knew them as the Mushku,
the Greeks as the Moskhi and by others as Musku, Muskaaia, Moshi and Moska.
Herodotus, a well-known ancient historian, calls them Moschi and Tibarenoi. And
the ancient capital of Cappadocia was Mazaca.

While in Asia Minor they were inseparable
from the Toboli[321]. They were the "natural " or
hereditary enemies of the Assyrians and were largely the cause of the Assyrians
losing power over other peoples from time to time[322].

They migrated with Tubal up to the Black
Sea and into the Russian plains[323]. Dr Gesenius wrote in the nineteenth
century that Meschech became the Moschi, a very barbaric people. They dwelt, he
said, in the Moschian Mountains[324]. The Moschian Mountains were the
connecting chain between the Caucasus and Anti Taurus Mountains[325]. The Scofield Reference Bible
says that the "reference to Meschech and Tubal (Moscow and Tobolosk) is a
clear mark of identification"[326]. Strabo claimed that here was a district
named "Moschice", a very barbaric people, while Lempriere stated in
his dictionary that the Moschi were a people to the west of the Caspian Sea[327].

Expert Milner explains :

"The territory first occupied by Meschech after their
descent from the table-lands of Pamir was the plain at present peopled by the
Turcomans, between the Oxus and the Caspian ... The whole district within five
hundred miles of Moscow seems to be saturated with the name of Meschech".[328]

He then refers the reader to Steiler's
German Hand Atlasto prove his
pointby referring to the following
place-names: Moscow; the Moskva River; the Novo-Mosc-owsk on a tributary of the
Dnieper; Mosch-Aisk near Borodino;Mosch-ok between Moscow and Nijini Novogorod;
Mosch-arki stood on a tributary of the Volga River; Misch-etski stood between
Moskow and the Tula; Mischiritschi on the border with the Ukraine; Mesch-a, a
branch of the Dwina River; Mesch-Tschowsk near Tula; Mesch-Tschenskaia on the
border with the Ukraine and Meschk-uze near Riga! It should also be noted that
the Finns of Russia are divided into two tribes, Erses and Moskshes[329]

RUSSIAN CLAIMS OF ETHNIC ORIGINS

No doubt, the Great Russians occupying
the thousands of square kilometres around Moscow descend from their ancient
forefather, Meschech[330]. The city of Moscow is spelt Moskva by
the Russians themselves and it stood in the midst of a Russian state once known
as Muscovy. The whole of Russia, in fact, was known as Muskovi for a long time
even until the time of Ivan the Terrible[331].

The Peoples of Moschi were renowned as
being a cruel race anciently : "woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech"[332]. The term quoted here is from the Bible,
being used as we use the term "Vandal", "Hun" of
"Philistine" today, as being typical of cruelty and mercilessness[333].

It has long been generally understood by many
Russian academics that much of their population is descended from a branch of
the Scythians. A famous Russian poet, Alexander Blok, for example, noted such
in one of his poems, The Scythians[334]. Also, Russian historian Alekseyev, in
his work, In Search Of Our Ancestors, writes that the Russians are a
branch of the Scythians[335].

There we have it - as plain as daylight !
The peoples of Madai, Tubal and Meschech may be found in western Russia. They
are a very tough, hardened people, best to be left alone and not interfered or
tangled with .

However, scores of various groups fall
within the borders of modern-day Russia, although dominated by Meschech. They
include 16 autonomous republics, 5 autonomous regions, 10 national districts
and 6 territories and 49 regions. They include such ethnic entities such as the
Komi, Karella, Chuvash, Bashkirias, Tuvas, Yakutias, Jews, Ossetias and so
forth. The list is virtually endless. These people are destined to more-or-less
stay together and attempt to forge an empire out of the rubble of the mess left
behind by the Communists. It will be an enormously powerful empire, with huge
manpower and natural resources with technological assistance from Germany. It
seems that Russia will hearken back to the days of the Tsars and appoint
someone who ccan be seen to be a symbol of unity, and who would once again
ignite the imaginations of these tribes and peoples. He wold have ancient roots
and therefore a 'right' to champion their cause for a better lifestyle and
religious liberty. As a royal he would be the mystical union between the
present and the past, the people and their God, embodying the soul of the
nation and representing them on the international stage.

Finally, dear reader, expect a far
different looking Russia in the years ahead. Prophecy seems to indicate that
the Baltic states will be joined with Europe and the Ukraine may gain some form
of semi-independence. While the Great Russians will initially be partners of
Europe, they will eventually have a terrible falling out with them which will
lead to the most horrible conflict in human history.